Vending-machine.



G. A. RITZ.

VENDING MACHINE.

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2 SHEETS e. A. RITZ.

VENDING, MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. H3, 1918.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

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useful Improvements in unlocked by NITED STATES FPATEN GEORGE A. RIT Z, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

' zen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and and do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accomto the letters and figform a part of this specification.

' his invention chine for vending newspapers and the like. The invention aims as one of'its objects to provide a machine of this kind having a newspaper receiving compartment and a coin controlled mechanism; adapted, when the coin, to be nianually'operated' for feeding one newspaper, at a time ,A further object of the invention is to provide an improved newspaper feed means for a vending machine for feedingnewspapers, one at a time, through a throat and into fa receptacle on the floor. of'thej casing of a further object of the invention isto pro the machine,

whereit may be removed by the purchaser.

jvide a newspaper receiving compartment having an inclined bottom and in which the newspapers upon their folded edges are disposed perpendicularly in parallelism, 1n

icombination. with a gravity actuated feed member to exert constant papers, in order to feed.

pressure upon the them toward the newspaper extricating mechanism.

azine display/racks in A further object of the invention is to provide a machine of this kind havingmagthe front of its casing andalso suitable receptacles in the base of the casing. 5..

.In practical fields the various details of construction may be panyinig drawings which, with the numerals Vending-Machines;

relates to an improved maaltered, provided the. alterations fall within the scope ofwhat is claimed. 1 y

The invention comprises various other details of construction, combination and ar- Ixrangement of .parts which will be herein-' shownin the accom- 10 so as to hold VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

"Application filed September 18, 1918 Serial No. 254,647.

of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application and inwhich:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved newspaper vending machine constructed in accordance with myinvention.

1g. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the machine on line 22 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow. I FFig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 4 is Fig. 3, and, p

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of one Ieflitahe clips carried by the newspaper carrier e s. Y

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numerals:

1 designates the casing which may be of a sectional view on' line 4. 4c of any suitable shape or configuration, preferably rectangular, as shown in the drawings. The front of the casingis provided with a plurality of downwardly and forwardly extending shelves ,4 provided with marginal flanges 3 and adaptedffor the support of magazines and the like on display.- The lower portion of the casing-1 is provided with suitable guides 4 for one or more drawers for the reception of various artlc'les, such as newspapers, magaz nes, etc., particularly those of back dates. The casing is supported upper part of the casinghas a newspaper receiving compartupon suitable legs 6. The

rearwardly inclined grooves 10. Mounted in the receptacle 7 is a weight or gravity actuated' member 11, theupper and lower edges 12 and13 of which are inclined in parallelism, as shown, so as to conform to-theinclined bottom and top 14. The top of the cover 14 is hinged at 15 and isprovided with a conventional form of hasp 16, the usual slot of which receives the staple 17 to which a padlock 18 may be connected for holding locked. Said member 11 excompartment 7 the top or cover closed and weight or gravity actuated tends the full length bf the and its end edges are provided with lugs or projections 19 adapted to engage the grooves the weight or gravity member 11 substantially perpendicularly in adi i posed position while in the act of exerting 21 is revolved, revoluble movement is impressure on the newspapers, the aim being parted to the pulleys and the belts. Norto feed the newspaper rearwardly and downmally the belts are disposed as shown in wardly toward the outlet mouth 20 of said Fig. 2, having been forced so that certain compartment. of the clips or nippers 33 are disposed in the 70 A plurality of shafts 21, 22 and 23 are throat30, as shown, the jaws of the nippers mounted in bearings of the casin 1 and are having opened.

disposed transversely thereof anc arranged It is to be noted that the upper part of as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. A pluthe throat 30 is larger than the lower part,

rality of pulleys 24 is keyed upon the shaft so as to permit the clips-or nippers to open, 75 22. Pulleys 25 are carried by the shaft 23. asshown in Fig. 2, for the reception of the Keyed to the shaft 21 is a plurality of pullower folded edge of each newspaper, as leys 26. Traveling about the pulleys 25 and shown at 48. After the lower folded edge 26 (which are alined) is a plurality of carof the newspaper has engaged between the rier belts 27. These belts may be constructjaws of the nippers or clips, as shown in Fig. 80 ed of any suitable material, preferably heavy 2, and movement hasv been imparted to the but flexible leather, or the like. The belts belts, the outer jaws of the nippers will be 27 are inter-connected by the elongated rods closed by camming against the wall of the 28, whereby as the shaft 21 is rotated, th y throat. For instance, when the nippers pass will move in unison. through'the contracted part ofthe throat, 85

The back wall of the casing 1 has a the outer. jaws will be pressed toward the curved portion concentric with the shaft 21 inner jaws which bear against the outer and the pulleys 26, and between this curved ylindrical surface of the pull ys 26, thereportion 29 and the several belts a newspaper by firmly gripping the lower folded edge throat 30 is provided. A flange 31 (which of the newspaper. By continuous movement 90 is also concentric with the pulleys 26) eX- of the belts, the newspaperwill be fed tends from the rear wall of the casing t0- through theithroat and overthe pulleys 24. ward and in closed position to the pulleys Just so soon as the nippers pass beyond the p .24, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The belts'27 pulleys 24, they will open by gravity, and i.

30 adjacent where the rods 28 pass therehencerelease the newspaper. r 95 through, are provided with openings 32, and By means-of the small points or lugs 34 pivotally connected to said rods 28 are V- intermediate the nippers or clips contacting shaped clips or nippers 33. The jaws of the with the newspaper, it is obvious that the nippers are flexible or yielding and are capanewspaper will be constantly and positively 35 his of being forced toward each other. Also fed through the throat, even afterthe nip- 10o carried by the belts 27 intermediate the clips pers or clips has disengaged the paper. It or' nippers, is a plurality of small lugs or is further obvious that the nippers may be points 34. One end of the shaft 21 has keyed dispensed with if so desired, leaving only thereto a. toothed wheel 35. A space 36 is the pointed lugs 34 to feed the papers.

formed in the casing 1 adjacent one end of The detailed constructed of the nippers 105 the newspaper receiving compartment, and or clips may be varied as deemed advisin this space the toothed wheel 35 is located. able in theimanufacture of a machine of this A coin compartment 37 is formed in the characten'so as to accommodate newspapers space 36, there being a hinged closure 38 of various thicknesses. Each paper will be whereby access may be had to the compartfed until it is discharged through the'open- 110 ment, ing49 upon the shelf 50, which is inclined The closure 38 may be locked in any s uit downwardly and A is provided with a marable manner, not shown. Also formed in the ginal flange, and from which shelf the purspace 36 adjacent-to the coin compartment, chaser may have free access to the paper is a guide 39 for the reception of the plunger 7 so discharged.

40. Pivoted on a pinor shaft 41 in the ,What I claim to be new is:

space 36 a lever 42 having a weighted 1. In a newspaper vending apparatus, the end 43. One end of the lever 42 has a combination with a casing havinga comtooth 44to engage between any two adjacent partment with an inclined bottom, with an teeth of the toothed wheel 35 to prevent the'. exit opening intermediate the lower end of 120 shaft 21 from being rotated. A link 45 the opening and the-adjacent wall of the pivotally connects between the plunger 40 casing,shaftsjournaled in the oppositewalls and the weighted end ofthe lever 42. It of the casing underneathsaid compartment, is obvious that by inserting a coin, such as pulleys rotating with said shafts, belts pass .shownat 46, into the guide 39 so as tobear ing about the shafts, rods connecting the 125 upon the plunger 40, the lever 42 may be belts, friction pulleys bearing against said tilted to disengage the tooth 44 from the .belts,,and means carried by the belts .cowheel 35. By so interlocking the'shaft 21, operating with the wall of the casing to it is obvious that the shaft may be rotated clamp and draw papers from said 'compart by means of the crank 47. When the shaft ment, papers being fedfrom the casing 130 by the endless belts and wheels bearing frictionally against the belts.

2. n a newspaper vending apparatus, the combination with a casing having a compartment with an inclined bottom, with an exit opening intermediate the lower end of the opening and the adjacent wall of the casing, shafts journaled in the opposite walls of the casing underneath said comartment, pulleys rotating with said shafts, elts passing about the shafts, rods connecting the belts, friction pulleys bearing again-st said belts, pivotal forked flexible members mounted upon the belts, one of the arms of each flexible member being adapted to be forced by contact with the wall of the casing against a paper to be drawn from said tion therewith to feed the paper forward between the belts and the pulleys which frictionally engage the latter.

In a newstpaper vending apparatus, the combination 0 a casing havinga compartment with an inclined bottom, with an exit Copies of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the compartment and held in clamped relaopening intermediate the lower end of said bottom and the adjacent wall of the casing, shafts journaled in opposite walls of the casing underneath said compartment, pulleys rotating with the shafts, belts having openings at intervals therein, passing about said shafts, rods connecting the belts and passing through the walls of said openings, friction pulleys bearing against said belts, flexible forked paper engaging mem bers pivotally mounted upon each rod and within the openings in the belts, one arm of each member normally projecting outside the opening in which it is mounted and designed to contact with the wall of the easing as the pulleys rotate, causing the arm to spring back and hold the papers against the belt as the pulleys rotate.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE A. RITZ. Witnesses:

FRANKLIN W. Hon, WM. F. Dom.

"Commissioner of Patents,

Wuhington, D. G. 

